AP Human GEO Unit 4 Vocab

The authority of a state to govern itself or another state. A recognized right to control a territory both politically and militarily.

States are sovereign. Nations are not.

• Self-Determination

• State-less nation

• Sovereignty

• Nation

A largely self-governing body within a larger political or organizational entity.

• Multinational state

• Autonomous/semi-autonomous region

• Stateless nation

• State

State that contains two or more ethnic groups with traditions of self-determination that agree to coexist peacefully by recognizing each other as distinct nationalities.

ex: russia

• Shatter belt

• Separatism

• Multi-national state

• Federal State

A nation that stretches across borders.

EX: North and South Korea

• Irredentism

• Territoriality

• Stateless nation

• Multi-state nation (part nation state)

An ethnic group or nation that does not possess its own state. It is not the majority population in any state.

EX: Kurds

• Federal State

• Nation-State

• Stateless Nation

• Sovereignty

A large body of people united by common descent, history, culture, or language, inhabiting a particular country or territory.

Nations can share: religion, language, ethnicity, etc.

EX: Jewish nation, Kurds

• Nation

• Multi-national state

• Stateless nation

• Nation-state

A sovereign state whose citizens or subjects are relatively homogeneous in factors such as language or common descent.

EX: The United States

• Federal State

• Stateless Nation

• Multinational state

• Nation-state

A nation or territory considered as an organized political community under one government.

EX: The U.S, Brazil, etc

• State

• Self-determination

• Unitary State

• UNCLOS

The ability of a government to determine their own course of their own free will

EX: Establishment of countries after WWII in Eastern Europe

• Federal State

• State

• Self-Determination

• Stateless Nation

Antecedent boundaries are established before the area in question is well populated.

• Relic boundary

• Antecedent boundaries

• Geometric boundary

• Consequent boundary